Early paper Grayscale submitted its first private cash ETF application; Elliptic completed $120 million in funding at $670 million; Bitmine planned to hold 5% of its supply at the end of 2026
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- Achorage Digital exits USDG, stabilizes currency, stabilizes currency union moves towards multiple decentralization
- Grayscale submits the first private currency spot ETF application, Multicoin Capital discloses the buildup of ZEC
- The Kraken parent company Payward is making new financing with a $20 billion valuation to accelerate M & As expansion and advance IPO readiness
- Bitmine plans to hold a 5% supply of the Ether House by the end of 2026
- Elliptic completed $120 million in financing at $670 million, one Peak Partners
- Belet submitted a request to the SEC for a new monetization fund, again working with Securitize
- Glamsterdam Upgrade Progress: Web development online, Hegotá Extension synchronises
What's important about the past 24 hours
Belet submitted a request to the SEC for a new monetization fund, again working with Securitize
ChainCatcher reports that BlackRock has filed a new monetization fund with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and has again chosen Securitize to provide infrastructure support. Previously, the first monetization fund, BUIDL, launched by Belet in collaboration with Securitize, was successfully released in 2024 and now has assets of approximately $2.3 billion。
Elliptic completed $120 million in financing at $670 million, one Peak Partners
ChainCatcher News, Elliptic, a block chain analyst, completed a new round of $120 million in US$ 670 million valuation, one Peak Partners, Deutsche Bank, Nasdaq-flagged start-up sector and British Business Bank, and JP Morgan Chase continued to vote。
Elliptic was established in 2013 to provide financial institutions and law enforcement agencies with encryption controls and anti-money-laundering and sanctions compliance tools. The company currently screens more than 1 billion transactions per week for more than 700 clients to support the compliance operations required by large banks, regulatory agencies and financial science and technology companies for digital asset operations。
Bitmine plans to hold a 5% supply of the Ether House by the end of 2026
ChainCatcher NewsMr. Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine, stated that the purchase of 26,659 ETHs by Bitmine last week was slower than the purchase of more than 100,000 a week, but that it was still planned to hold 5 per cent of the supply by the end of 2026. The company currently has a total of over 4.7 million pledges to the Taifeng and is expected to reward the entire post-commitment year by approximately $352 million。
Tom Lee believes that if the fare price at the end of May is more than $2100, the encryption spring will be verified。
ChainCatcher, the co-founder of BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, in his latest blog, says that Bitcoin Cow City has really started on February 28th when the war between the US and Iran began. AI Capital expenditures, war expenditures and investments in physical infrastructure by countries to secure supply chains will facilitate the uncontrolled expansion of French-currency credit, which will continue to benefit bitcoin。
Hayes noted that bitcoin had rebounded from a low point of $60,000 earlier this year, reiterating that the advance of $126,000 was “necessarily necessary”. Hayes believes that the current round of AI capital spending is unprecedented in scale, and central banks like the Fed are printing more money. Declining confidence in United States dollar assets will shift to investing in physical infrastructure and commodity reserves, further contributing to the expansion of the French currency。
He anticipated an acceleration of the increase after the Bitcoin breakthrough of $90,000, with Maelstrom ' s portfolio exposure being highest. In addition to Hyperliquid and Zcash, Hayes, the next best banknote is NEAR, which will explain in a follow-up article how its privacy narrative and the Intent structure create positive cash flows for the agreement. At the end of the text, he said that it was the bull market, but it was not the time to sell。
Circe rolls out the Agent Stack tool package to allow AI proxy to use USDC funds autonomously
ChainCatcher, according to Decrypt, USDC issuer Circle launched the Agent Stack tool package, which allows AI agents to own funds, pay fees and use USDC for transactions without manual intervention. Core products include proxy wallets, command line interfaces, proxy markets and nanopayment agreements that support small transfers of $0.0001 without Gas fees。
Circle states that traditional financial systems are designed for human beings and AI agents cannot operate on their own, and therefore infrastructure needs to be rebuilt. According to Jeremy Allaire, co-founder of Circle, Agent Stack was the first financial services package to have AI agents themselves as clients。
ChainCatcher NewsIn a letter from Platform X, Stread Finance indicated that the Straam trading agreement was looking for ways to maximize the value of the assets of customers and creditors, with the goal of integrating, liquidating and distributing assets as quickly as possible and prudently. The team is currently considering several strategic alternatives involving clients and creditors and is expected to provide more details in the coming weeks. The questions may be addressed to Jeremy Ledgwidge of Cooley LLP。
Last November, Straam Finance disclosed a loss of $93 million in assets and suspended cash withdrawals, which was followed by a significant break-in of XUSD。
Arbitrum DAO proposal updated, court modified restraining order and agreed to freeze ETH to Aave LLC
ChainCatcher, according to official sources, updated by the Arbitrum DAO proposal, the plaintiff ' s judgement creditor in a unrelated case served a restraining order to Arbitrum DAO against ETH that had been frozen after the rsETH incident. Several days later, Aave LLC filed an urgent motion for withdrawal. The court amended the restraining order to allow for a chain vote in Arbitrum and to transfer frozen ETH to Aave LLC。
Upon transfer, the restraining order will be attached to Aave LLC. The revised constitutional AIP retains the approved asset recovery intent of Arbitrum DAO, and ETH will remain for rsETH recovery. Aave LLC will comply with all court obligations in the course of the proceedings。
According to ChainCatcher, Kraken's parent company, Payward, of the encrypted currency platform Kraken, is financing a new round of capital with a $20 billion valuation, which Kraken does not comment on。
The company has recently significantly increased its M & As expenditure — a paid company that has acquired a currency of stability at $600 million, Reap, and the Digital Assets Derivative Platform at $550 million, both of which are valued at $20 billion。
The biggest deal was the purchase of a US retail futures platform in 2025 at $1.5 billion, and the CFTC registered futures commissioner, Ninja Trader, which gave Kraken an important foothold in the US derivatives market。
In terms of IPO progress, Payward secretly submitted a draft S-1 registration declaration to the US SEC on 19 November 2025. Despite reports in March 2026 that companies had suspended the IPO programme because of unfavourable market conditions, sources indicated that the company still intended to be listed, but could wait for market improvements。
At last week's Consensus Congress in Miami, Payward joined CEO Arjun Sethi to call the trading platform "ready to 80%" for listing。
In addition, in April 2026, the German Exchange (DB1) purchased about 1.5 per cent of Payward's shares through a double-sale stock, valued at $13.3 billion (below the previous valuation of approximately $20 billion)。
In November 2025, Kraken completed $800 million in two tranches of finance to promote the uplinking of traditional financial products, with investors including Jane Street, DRW Venture Capital, Tribe Capital, and subsequently Citadel Securities making $200 million in strategic investments valued at $20 billion。
Arkham announced that it will remove TON chain support, which will take effect on May 13th
ChainCatcher News, Arkham, a chain analysis platform, announced on platform X that support for the TON block chain would be removed from Arkham Intel platform at 10 a.m. Eastern U.S. time on Wednesday, 13 May, after regular team assessment。
Arkham states that they regularly assess chain integration according to user needs, the importance of chains in encrypted ecology and other factors. This removal of TON is based on the latest review。
ChainCatcher, Graysdale has submitted an Zcash spot ETF application to convert the existing Zcash trust into a spot product, making it the first private currency to seek listing in the United States. At the same time, Multicoin Capital disclosed that since February it had been built continuously, ZEC, a co-founder of Tushar Jain, linked investment logic to the proposed wealth tax legislation of the United States, arguing that greater government control over private financial silos would boost the structural demand for assets that are shielded at the mathematical level。
The application, however, also raised the challenge of hosting: Zcash had about 30 per cent of its supply in the shielded address pool, the highest ever, but ETF hosting had almost to use transparent address pools to meet audit and balance certification requirements. Previously, in January 2026, the SEC concluded its long-term review of Zcash and failed to take enforcement action, significantly reducing regulatory uncertainty。
ChainCatcher, the first federal licensed encryption bank in the United States, has indicated that participation in the Global Dollar (USDG) stabilization currency union will be reduced and that it will no longer act as a more front-stage driver. Its members include Robinhod, Kraken, Galaxy Digital, OkX and Visa Inc。
The co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley stated that the company would adopt a “higher degree of neutrality” in the area of stable currency issuance in the future, avoiding targeted support for a single stable currency to accommodate its business expansion as a white-marked distribution and hosting platform. He noted that, as more and more institutions sought to issue stabilization coins through the Anchorage (currently about 20 potential partners), companies needed to reassess the issue of incentive structures and consistency of interests。
The USDG is currently being issued by Paxos Digital Singapore and supervised by the Singapore Finance Authority, with a circulation of about $3 billion. It was widely felt by market participants that the issuance of stabilization currency was entering a new phase of multi-agency, multi-network parallel development。
Glamsterdam Upgrade Progress: Web development online, Hegotá Extension synchronises
ChainCatcher, EtherFoundation, discloses the results of the recent interoperability meeting of the core developers in Svalbard, Norway, and updates key technological advances in the next phase of the upgrading of Glamsterdam. During the meeting, multi-client teams collaborated around network expansion and executive-level optimization, advancing in multiple directions. The developers confirmed that based on the combined results of ePBS, BAL optimization and EIP-8037 heavy pricing mechanism, a “credible path” after Glamsterdam has been agreed。
On the executive level, ePBS (external proposer separation architecture) has stabilized in a multi-client Glamsterdam-devnet, and external block builder processes have completed end-to-end testing, covering almost all client clients. In the meantime, EIP-8037 has been finalized to establish the fixed cost per state byte model and complete the output of full weight pricing parameters in the bal-devnet-6. The expansion direction Hegotá is also moving forward. FOCIL-related prototypes are operationalized, the scope of the abstract (AA) needs of the account has been defined and the next phase will enter the multi-client development network validation phase。
The current development focus is still on the final landing of Glamsterdam, while advancing the Hegotá extended design and subsequent evolution of Strawmap. Web development is on line and it is expected that functionality such as FOCIL will continue to deepen in the next phase of testing. At the organizational level, this interop also marks the official launch of the leadership restructuring of Protocol Cluster. New leaders include Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn and Fredrik. Of these, Will Corcorán is responsible for the coordination of zkVM certification with the back quantum consensus, Kev Wedderburn is leading the development of zkEVM, and Fredrik is responsible for protocol security and the Refugee Security project。
Barnabé Monnot and Tim Beiko, former leader of Protocol Cluster, will gradually withdraw from the management role and Alex Stokes will enter the leave cycle. The Foundation states that Protocol has completed modularization advancement during its tenure and has promoted Fusaka ' s upgrade online (December 2025), introduced PeerDAS and enhanced the main network gas capability。
ChainCatcher, CoW DAO sent a communication stating that its domain name registered dealer was attacked by social engineering on April 14, and that the attackers briefly controlled the official domain name for about 4.5 hours and, during that time, led users to visit the fishing website, thereby inducing them to sign a malicious transaction. The projector emphasized that CoW Protocol itself had not been invaded, but that part of the user ' s assets had been affected in that time window。
In response to the incident, CIP-86, the CoW DAO Community Governance Proposal, approved the establishment of a discretionary compensation fund to cover the losses of affected users. The official reminder is that eligible users are required to file a declaration by 14 May, including the address of the affected wallet, asset information, trade Hashi and name, and to apply through the e-mail box help@cow.fi, with the name “Discretionary Grant Claim for”。
ChainCatcher, according to The Block, the non-host encrypted wallet Exodus (NYSE:EXOD) published a performance of $22.7 million in the first quarter of 2026, representing a decline of 37 per cent over the same period, mainly caused by a decline of 40.8 per cent in the aggregate income of the exchange; the net loss increased to $32.1 million in the current quarter, compared to $12.9 million in the same period last year; and the volume of transactions processed was $11.8 billion, a decline of 26 per cent in the ring。
In addition, the acquisition of Monavate and Baanx was completed by Exodus on 1 May. Exodus stock prices fell by 4.9 per cent and the unit increased by 20.5 per cent over the past month, but so far this year they have fallen by 47.9 per cent。
ChainCatcher, a chain detective, ZachXBT, exposed the American threat actor, Dritan Kapllani Jr., for alleged involvement in social engineering theft against encrypted users totalling approximately $19 million. ZachXBT says that Dritan has long lived in social media flaunting cars, watch, private airplanes and nightclubs. On April 23, 2026, he publicly presented an Exceldus wallet with $3.68 million in assets in order to prove that he was richer than another hacker in Discord's “Band 4 Band” voice。
Related ETH address: 0x4487db847db2fc993772a985743a26f46e0b2bba6. The ZachXBT trace found links to 185 BTC (approximately $13 million) cases of theft by social workers on 14 March 2026. The next day, Dritan's Exodus wallet received approximately $5.3 million in funds. As of the B4B call six weeks later, approximately $1.6 million had been spent or washed。
On 11 May, the United States judiciary lifted the indictment against Trenton Johnson, who was accused of participating in the above-mentioned 185 BTC theft and facing a maximum of 40 years ' imprisonment. The “complicity No. 1 (CC-1)” in the indictment, referred to as Dritan, has not yet been formally indicted. ZachXBT also noted that there was a link between Dritan and John Daghita (Lick), a hacker who had been arrested for stealing $46 million from the United States Government, and John who had exposed his old wallet address at Telegram。
The chain analysis showed that the address related to a number of high-trust social worker thefts in 2025, with a cumulative value of over $5.85 million. ZachXBT states that Dritan has long been active in the “The Com” hacker circle because his status as a minor was suspected of not being formally prosecuted. He is now 18 years old and “may well have ended the time he borrowed”。
ChainCatcher News, Nasdark listed company Coincheck Group announced a strategic investment and operational cooperation agreement with the Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI Corporation, which will purchase Coincheck Group's new general distribution stock of 28,536,516 shares at a cost of $2.28 per share, with a total turnover of approximately $65 million, with Morgan Chase acting as a financial consultant, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP as legal adviser. It is known that the two sides will cooperate around the expansion of the digital asset market, including income-sharing and referral incentives。
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What are the good articles worth reading in the past 24 hours
When the first share of the stable coin, Circle, was determined to tear the label off
The first quarter of 2026, which was published by the Circe yesterday, handed over a score card for a double-digit increase in sales and simultaneously disclosed the original currency of Arc under the new public chain at $3 billion in advance sales. Despite a 15 per cent decline in net profits as a result of increased equity pay and operating investment, the market focus was on long-line narratives paid by Arc and AI delegate, with the CRCL stock price increasing by nearly 16 per cent that day, at $13,176, a new high since mid-March。
Next, the focus of the market will be on Arc’s main online line schedule, the market acceptance of ARC tokens after their open circulation, and the impact of the subsequent fall of the US GENIUS Act and Clarity Act on overall stable currency competition patterns。
Hyperliquid, can you win by killing the forecast market
In May 2026, Hyperliquid formally launched the predictive market function Outcomes (results contract) on the main online HIP-4 incident contract。On the first day on the line, the nominal trade reached 6.05 million contracts, about 0.7 per cent of the projected market volume that dayI don't know。By contrast, on that date Kalshi had about 546 million cards and Polymarket about 190 million, with wide differences in volume。
However, according to DL News, its first BTC-priced single-day transaction volume for the two-dollar contract is about three times the combined market volume of Polymarket and Kalshi。
The Coinglass data show that the HYPE token has increased by nearly 60 per cent since the beginning of the year, and by about 42 per cent over the past 90 days。
A platform that already holds more than 70 per cent of the market for a lasting contract in the chain, now officially enters the completely different logic of predicting the market。Hyperliquid, can you copy myth again the last time you successfully opened a commercial currency battle with HIP-3
